Jayson Murphy lit the speck of paper and inhaled, holding the smoke in his lungs as long as he could. His cellmate, John Jenkins, purchased the drug-soaked paper from another incarcerated man at ...

Few genres tap into society’s worst fears and most illicit curiosities more than the prison film. Jails, felons, and the ...

Three women say they were forced out of their beds and ordered to clean filthy chow hall floors as prison anticipates ...

The 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude—except as punishment for a crime. This so-called "Except Clause" has long been used to justify forced ...

At a for-profit immigrant prison in Colorado, prisoners say they were threatened with solitary confinement if they refused to work as unpaid janitors, cleaning common areas of the facility for free.

Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin vanished from Alcatraz after months of planning, leaving behind one of America’s ...

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President Donald Trump wants to convert Alcatraz back into a federal prison, decades after the California island fortress was converted into a U.S. tourist destination because it had become too costly ...

Thursday marked 100 years since two entrepreneurs in Springfield, Missouri, sent a telegram to the nation’s capital requesting the name “66” for their new highway.

The Stanford Prison Experiment of 1971 is one of the most famous – and infamous – psychological experiments conducted, still discussed in classrooms and pop culture more than half a century on. But ...